Landeshauptmann

Landeshauptmann (German for "state captain", plural Landeshauptmänner or Landeshauptleute, female form: Landeshauptfrau) is a former German gubernatorial title equivalent to that of a governor of a province or a state.

The title originally referred to the governor of a principality or province in the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Empire. It is still used in modern Austria and in South Tyrol, an autonomous province in Italy with strong linguistic and cultural ties to the neighbouring Austrian state of Tyrol. In the Czech Republic, a hejtman (German hauptmann) represents each of the 13 self-governing regions (Czech kraj, pl. kraje).

The title was also used by the German empire for governors during the early stages of its colonial rule over South West Africa (1893-1898), Togoland (1893-1898) and German New Guinea (1886-1889, 1892-1899)